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University of Oklahoma (David Boren’s Campus) Obstructing a Federal Investigation

25 November 2008, 03:14, by Michael P. Wright

REPLY FROM MICHAEL WRIGHT

Ask Dean Paul Bell about "logic." He can’t even give consistent instructions. In the first paragraph he writes that no employee should release any information to a federal agent without approval from the OU Office of Legal Counsel.

Later in the same email, Bell says that the University "is not instructing you not to talk to the investigator or auditor..."

Why couldn’t the man remember what he wrote in the first paragraph? Was he in a frenzy of fear when he drafted this email?

"Oh what a tangled web we weave, when we practice to deceive."

Bell also forbids employees from giving documents to federal investigators. He seems to be forgetting that OU is a public facility and that EVERY OU record is a public document except for some individual personnel and student records which are private.

Bell’s email warns that "it is usually not in an employee’s best interest to talk with an investigator or auditor without an attorney present."

That appears to be a veiled threat. If a federal investigator comes around, Bell and Mergler obviously want the interviewed employee to have one of Boren’s trusted University lawyers there to control what the employee says.

I see from your IP address that you are at OU and you did not identify yourself. Are you on Boren’s payroll?